IT'S EASTER THAT TURNS EVERY
HURT INTO A HALLELUJAH. IT'S EASTER THAT TURNS EVERY TEAR TO
A PEARL. IT IS EASTER THAT TURNS EVERY MIDNIGHT TO A
SUNRISE. IT IS EASTER THAT TURNS
EVERY. CALVARY TO A RESURRECTION. THE
PLAIN-SPOKEN BIBLICAL WISDOM AND TIMELESS TEACHING OF
ADRIAN ROGERS HAS GONE AROUND
THE. WORLD, AND HAS BEEN
DESCRIBED BY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
HE HAS. TOUCHED AS PROFOUND TRUTH;
SIMPLY STATED. TODAY, WE'LL BE HEARING SOME OF THAT PROFOUND
TRUTH THROUGH HIS MESSAGE SERIES, FOUNDATIONS FOR OUR
FAITH. WE HOPE YOU'LL HAVE YOUR BIBLES READY AND STAY WITH US
FOR THIS POWERFUL MESSAGE. AND IF YOU WERE ENCOURAGED BY
TODAY'S MESSAGE, REMEMBER, YOU CAN STREAM THIS MESSAGE AGAIN,
AND DOWNLOAD PASTOR ROGERS' OUTLINE, NOTES, A COMPLETE
TRANSCRIPT AND OTHER RESOURCES TO GO ALONG WITH THIS MESSAGE,
ALL AT LWF.ORG. NOW, LET'S JOIN ADRAIN ROGERS. WOULD YOU BE FINDING ROMANS
CHAPTER EIGHT. IN OUR JOURNEY THROUGH ROMANS WE'VE COME
THROUGH CHAPTER EIGHT. WE'VE CALLED ROMANS THE CONSTITUTION
OF CHRISTIANITY. I WAS IN, UH,
WASHINGTON, D.C., AND SAW AGAIN
THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. AND IN THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED. STATES THERE IS A BILL OF
RIGHTS. BUT IN THE BOOK OF. ROMANS THERE IS NO BILL OF
RIGHTS. WE HAVE NO RIGHTS. IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS WE FIND THE
GIFTS OF GRACE, HUH, BETTER THAN A BILL OF RIGHTS. RIGHTS ARE FOR
PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY OWN ANYTHING AND OWN SOMETHING; WE
OWN NOTHING, UH, BUT JUDGMENT. BUT THANK GOD, BY THE GRACE OF
GOD, BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND BY THE GIFTS OF GRACE, WE ARE WHAT
WE ARE, AMEN? [AUDIENCE: AMEN] NOW I WANT TO TALK TO YOU TODAY
ABOUT HOW THAT GRACE, HOW THAT RESURRECTION, HOW WHAT HAPPENED
ON THAT EASTER MORNING WILL TURN EVERY HURT INTO A HALLELUJAH.
NOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE HURTING. AS A MATTER OF FACT,
THERE'S A HEARTACHE ON EVERY PEW, IF YOU'LL THINK ABOUT IT,
AND THERE'S NO HOME WITHOUT ITS HUSH. AND WE LOOK AROUND, AND
EVERYWHERE THERE'S DEATH AND DISEASE AND CONFUSION AND PAIN
AND PANG AND MOAN AND GROAN AND SICKNESS AND SIGHING AND
CRYING AND DYING, EVERYWHERE!
AND. THAT'S THE REASON THIS DAY IS SO
VERY IMPORTANT. I WANT TO SHOW YOU TWO VERSES FROM ROMANS
EIGHT. LOOK IF YOU WILL IN. ROMANS EIGHT CHAPTER, CHAPTER
EIGHT AND VERSE 11, BUT IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM THAT RAISED UP
JESUS FROM THE DEAD DWELL IN YOU, HE THAT RAISED UP CHRIST
FROM THE DEAD SHALL ALSO QUICKEN YOUR MORTAL BODIES. THAT MEANS
GIVE LIFE TO YOUR DYING FLESH. HE WILL, QUICKEN YOUR MORTAL
BODIES BY HIS SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN YOU. AND THEN LOOK
IF YOU WILL IN VERSE 18 OF THIS SAME CHAPTER. PAUL SAYS, FOR I
RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY
TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.
NOW HE'S TALKING ABOUT EASTER, AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT HURTS AND
HE'S TALKING ABOUT HALLELUJAHS AND HE USES A TERM THAT'S A
BOOKKEEPING TERM. HE'S BEEN DOING SOME FIGURING AND HE SAYS,
I RECKON, I RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME
ARE NOT EVEN WORTHY TO BE COMPARED TO THE GLORY THAT SHALL
BE REVEALED IN US. AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 11, THIS IS TRUE
BECAUSE OF EASTER. YOU SEE, IT'S EASTER, LISTEN, IT'S
EASTER THAT TURNS EVERY HURT
INTO A. HALLELUJAH. IT'S EASTER THAT
TURNS EVERY TEAR TO A PEARL. IT IS EASTER THAT TURNS EVERY
MIDNIGHT TO A SUNRISE. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] IT IS EASTER
THAT TURNS EVERY CALVARY TO A RESURRECTION. PAUL IS TALKING
ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS FROM THE DEAD.
AND HE SAYS, IF THAT SPIRIT, THE SAME SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT,
THAT RAISED CHRIST FROM THAT GRAVE, IF HE DWELLS IN YOU,
THEN, THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT EVEN WORTHY
TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY THAT SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.'
NOW THERE'RE SEVERAL WORDS THAT I WANT US TO THINK ABOUT. AND
THE FIRST IS THE WORD GUILT, GUILT. THINK OF THAT WORD GUILT,
JUST JOT IT DOWN ON A PIECE OF PAPER. GUILT! THE GUILT THAT WE
EXPRESS. LOOK IF YOU WILL HOW ROMANS EIGHT BEGINS IN VERSES
ONE THROUGH THREE, THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO
THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, UNDERSCORE THE WORD
CONDEMNATION, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT,
UH, UNDERSCORE THE WORD FLESH, FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF
LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND
DEATH. UNDERSCORE THE WORD SIN AND DEATH. AND THINK OF THOSE
WORDS: CONDEMNATION, FLESH, SIN, DEATH. THAT'S A DESCRIPTION OF
THE WORLD TODAY. WE ARE, WE'RE CONDEMNED, WE, UH, WE ARE LIVING
LIVES ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, NOT THE SPIRIT. UH, AND WE ARE,
FIND OURSELVES UNDER LAW THAT
THE BIBLE CALLS HERE THE LAW OF
SIN AND DEATH. FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH AND THE SOUL THAT
SINNETH, IT SHALL SURELY DIE. AND THAT BRINGS UP AN INTERS,
INTERESTING QUESTION. WHAT ABOUT THIS THING CALLED SIN? DID YOU
KNOW THAT THERE'RE MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT BELIEVERS AND THEIR
PROBLEM IS NOT A SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM, THEY'RE NOT WRESTLING
WITH IDEAS LIKE EVOLUTION OR CREATION. THEIR PROBLEM IS THE
PROBLEM OF HISTORY. THEY SAY, IF THERE IS A GOD AND THAT GOD IS A
GOOD GOD, THEN LOOK AT ALL OF THE SUFFERING. WHY, IF GOD IS
GOOD, WHY DO WE HAVE SIN, WHY DO WE HAVE SUFFERING? AND THEY HAVE
A LITTLE ARGUMENT, A LITTLE SYLLOGISM AND HERE'S THE WAY THE
SYLLOGISM GOES: IF THERE BE A GOD, HE WOULD BE THE AUTHOR OF
EVERYTHING; EVIL IS SOMETHING, SO GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF EVIL.
WHAT KIND OF A GOD IS IT THAT HAS CREATED EVIL? AND, AND, SO,
THEY SAY, I CAN'T BELIEVE IN A GOD WHO MADE EVERYTHING AND HE
MADE IT LIKE HE DID AND SO, THEREFORE, HE MUST NOT BE A GOOD
GOD IF HE IS A GOD AT ALL. BUT THAT'S NOT STRAIGHT THINKING.
LET ME TELL YOU THE WAY IT TRULY IS: GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF
EVERYTHING, GOD MADE EVERYTHING PERFECT, AND WHEN GOD MADE MAN
GOD MADE HIS CREATURE PERFECTLY FREE. FREE WILL, THEN, MAN'S
PERFECT FREE WILL, IS THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. GOD DID NOT CREATE
EVIL; GOD CREATED PERFECTION, AND GOD MADE MAN PERFECTLY FREE.
AND FREEDOM, THEREFORE, GAVE RISE TO THIS EVIL. YOU
SEE, THIS IS WHAT MAKES US
MORAL. CREATURES. SOMEBODY SAYS, WELL,
WHY, WHY DIDN'T GOD JUST MAKE US WHERE WE COULDN'T SIN? HUH,
WELL, IF GOD HAD MADE US WHERE WE COULDN'T SIN, HE COULD HAVE
NO MORE FELLOWSHIP WITH ME THAN I COULD HAVE WITH THAT PULPIT OR
THAT SPEAKER. BECAUSE GOD MADE US MORAL CREATURES. LOVE IS THE
HIGHEST GOOD, AND GOD WANTS US TO LOVE HIM. THIS IS THE
FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT:
THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD
WITH ALL THY HEART, WITH ALL OVE IS
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. FORCED LOVE IS NOT LOVE AT ALL. IN
ORDER TO LOVE, WE MUST BE FREE TO LOVE, TO CHOOSE TO LOVE, AND
IN ORDER TO CHOOSE TO LOVE, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE NOT TO
LOVE. AND SO GOD GAVE US PERFECT CHOICE. AND ADAM CHOSE IN THE
GARDEN OF EDEN, AND THE SONS OF ADAM AFTER HIM, TO SIN. AND
THAT'S WHERE THE HEARTACHE AND THE PAIN AND THE GROAN AND THE
MOAN COME FROM, AS WE'RE GOING TO SEE IN A MOMENT. WELL, THAT
BRINGS ANOTHER QUESTION. WHY DOESN'T GOD JUST DESTROY EVIL? I
MEAN, IF HE WERE ALL POWERFUL, HE COULD. AND IF HE WERE ALL
LOVE, HE WOULD! SO WHY DOESN'T GOD JUST STEP IN,
OBLITERATE THE DEVIL, CAUSE ALL
SIN TO BE. ERADICATED? WHY DOESN'T GOD JUST
GO INTO EVERY CANCER WARD AND EMPTY EVERY CANCER WARD? WHY
DOESN'T GOD JUST TAKE AWAY THE CURSE FROM NATURE? WHY DOESN'T
GOD JUST DESTROY EVIL AND MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO SIN?
WE'RE RIGHT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION. IF GOD WERE TO DESTROY
EVIL, JUST DESTROY EVIL, GOD WOULD DESTROY EVERY OPPORTUNITY
OF CHOICE, AND IF GOD WOULD DESTROY EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR
CHOICE, THEN GOD WOULD DESTROY EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR LOVE, AND
THEREFORE GOD WOULD DESTROY THE HIGHEST GOOD, AND THEREFORE FOR
GOD TO DESTROY EVIL WOULD BE EVIL. NO, GOD DOESN'T DESTROY
EVIL, FRIEND, GOD DEFEATS EVIL, GOD DEFEATS EVIL. AND HOW DOES
GOD DEFEAT EVIL? CALVARY AND THE RESURRECTION! AND GOD TURNS
EVERY HURT TO A HALLELUJAH! AND GOD SAYS, FOR I RECKON THAT THE
SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE
COMPARED TO THE GLORY WHICH
SHALL BE. REVEALED IN US. YOU SEE, GOD IS
NOT FINISHED YET. [AUDIENCE: [AMEN] ALL RIGHT, THERE'S THE
GRIEF, EXCUSE ME, THERE'S THE GUILT THAT WE EXPRESS, VERSES
ONE THROUGH THREE, HEH, HEH,
HEH. OH, BUT FRIEND, THERE'S THE
GRACE THAT WE EXPERIENCE. AGAIN, LOOK IN CHAPTER EIGHT VERSE ONE,
THERE IS NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS,
WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT, FOR THE LAW OF
THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE
LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO, IN THAT IT
WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH, GOD, SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE
LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH AND FOR SIN, CONDEMNED TO SIN IN THE
FLESH, THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US
WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT. NOW WHAT DOES
THIS MEAN, WHAT KIND OF GRACE DO WE EXPERIENCE? WELL,
NUMBER ONE, NO CONDEMNATION FOR
SIN, HALLELUJAH. NO CONDEMNATION FOR
SIN, LOOK AT IT IN VERSE ONE, THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO
CONDEMNATION TO THOSE WHO ARE, WHAT? IN CHRIST JESUS. NOW WHAT
DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN CHRIST JESUS? WELL, GOD WANTS US TO BE
SAVED, HE'S GIVEN, HE'S GIVEN US SO MANY ILLUSTRATIONS OF
SALVATION. ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF SALVATION IS
NOAH'S ARK. NOAH'S ARK, THE BIBLE TEACHES US IN SECOND
PETER, IS AN ILLUSTRATION, A TYPE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
AND SO, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE IN CHRIST JESUS,
KNOW WHAT IT WAS FOR NOAH TO BE IN THAT ARK. AND GOD WAS GOING
TO JUDGE THE WORLD, AND GOD SAID TO NOAH AND HIS FAMILY, COME
THOU, INTO THE ARK. AND NOAH WENT INTO THAT ARK AND THEN THE
BIBLE SAYS, AND GOD SHUT THE DOOR. NOW THE ARK WAS
WATERPROOF. HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS WATERPROOF? WELL, GOD SAID
TO NOAH, NOAH, PUT PITCH ON THE INSIDE AND ON THE OUTSIDE.
PITCH WAS A BLACK, GOOEY,
STICKY. SUBSTANCE, AND NOAH GOT A BROAD
BRUSH AND HE AND HIS HELPERS, WHOEVER IT WAS, UH, THEY, THEY
PUT PITCH ALL OVER THE OUTSIDE OF THAT ARK. AND THEN THEY PUT
PITCH ALL OVER THE INSIDE OF THAT ARK. THAT WAS TO WATERPROOF
IT. NOW WATER WAS AN EMBLEM, A SYMBOL OF THE JUDGMENT OF GOD,
THE WRATH OF GOD; THAT FLOOD. BUT NOT ONE DROP OF WATER COULD
COME THROUGH THAT GOOEY PITCH. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD PITCH
IS? IT'S THE HEBREW WORD KAPHAR, AND IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME WORD
THAT IS TRANSLATED ATONEMENT, ATONEMENT, WHEN CHRIST DIED ON
THE CROSS, HE MADE AN ATONEMENT FOR OUR SIN, AND, AND, AND
GOD SAYS, PUT ATONEMENT ON THE. OUTSIDE, PUT ATONEMENT ON THE
INSIDE. NOT ONE DROP OF JUDGMENT CAN COME THROUGH THAT ATONEMENT.
YOU SEE, WE ARE IN JESUS AS NOAH WAS IN THAT ARK. AND BECAUSE WE
ARE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,
THE, THE, THE, THE WRATH, THE
STORMS OF GOD'S WRATH BEAT UPON THAT ARK! AND THE STORMS OF
GOD'S WRATH BEAT UPON THE LORD JESUS! BUT I'M ON THE INSIDE AND
NOT ONE DROP OF JUDGMENT CAN COME THROUGH. AH, YOU SEE,
THERE'S THE, THERE IS, UH, BECAUSE WE'RE IN CHRIST THERE'S
NO MORE CONDEMNATION FOR SIN, AND THERE'S NO MORE CONTROL OF
SIN. NOTICE, UH, WHAT HE SAYS IN VERSE TWO, FOR THE LAW OF THE
SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW
OF SIN AND DEATH. REMEMBER OUR ILLUSTRATION LAST WEEK? WE SAID
THERE ARE TWO LAWS IN THE NATURAL WORLD; THERE'S THE LAW
OF GRAVITY AND THERE'S THE LAW OF AERODYNAMICS. THE LAW OF
GRAVITY IS CONSTANTLY PULLING ON US, PULLING ON US, PULLING ON
US, IT'S HOLDING YOU IN YOUR SEAT. IT'S CAUSING YOU TO STICK
TO THE EARTH RATHER THAN FLYING OFF. BUT THERE'S ANOTHER LAW,
THE ENGINEERS CALL IT THE LAW OF AERODYNAMICS, AND YOU CAN TAKE A
GREAT AIRPLANE AND, AND THAT THING BEGINS TO REV UP THOSE
ENGINES AND IT BEGINS TO ROAR AND SUCK IN AIR THROUGH THOSE
GREAT ENGINES AND SQUIRT THAT AIR OUT THE BACK, AND THAT THING
BEGINS TO RUMBLE AND ROAR AND VIBRATE AND THEN SUDDENLY,
IT'S ALOFT, IT'S FLYING! TEN. THOUSAND, TWENTY THOUSAND,
THIRTY THOUSAND FEET, THREE, FOUR, FIVE HUNDRED MILES AN
HOUR, GOING THROUGH THE AIR. THERE IS A GREATER POWER THAN
THE POWER OF GRAVITY; IT'S THE LAW OF AERODYNAMICS. NOW
WE ARE SINNERS, SINNERS BY
BIRTH, SINNERS BY NATURE, SINNERS
BY CHOICE, AND THERE'S THAT. DOWNWARD PULL THAT THE BIBLE
CALLS THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. BUT HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, I
SAY, HALLELUJAH, BE, BECAUSE OF THAT EMPTY TOMB, THE LAW OF THE
SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW
OF SIN AND DEATH. SO THERE IS THE, THERE'S THE GUILT THAT WE
EXHIBIT, UH, HUH, HUH, BUT THERE IS THE GRACE THAT WE EXPERIENCE.
BUT NOW WATCH, PAY ATTENTION. THE THIRD THING, THERE ARE THE
GROANS, THE GROANS, THE GROANS THAT WE ENDURE. CONTINUE TO
READ. LOOK IF YOU WILL IN VERSE 18 OF THIS SAME CHAPTER HERE.
AND HE SAYS THIS, FOR I RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS
PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY, NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE
GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US, FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION
OF THE CREATURE, AND FOR THE WORD CREATURE YOU MAY WRITE IN
YOUR MARGIN CREATION, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT LITERALLY MEANS,
FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF THE CREATION, HE'S TALKING ABOUT
ALL NATURE, WAITETH FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF
GOD. FOR THE CREATION WAS MADE SUBJECT TO VANITY, THAT MEANS,
IT, IT IS NOT LIVING UP TO ITS ORIGINAL INTENTION, NOT
WILLINGLY, BUT BY REASON OF HIM, THAT IS, GOD, WHO HAS SUBJECTED
THE SAME, THAT IS, THE CREATION, IN HOPE. BECAUSE THE CREATURE
ITSELF ALSO SHALL BE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION
INTO THE GLORIOUS LIBERTY OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD. FOR WE KNOW.
NOW LISTEN, HERE'S A KEY, IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS, ARE YOU
PAYING ATTENTION? IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS, YOU'RE GOING TO
STUMBLE IN YOUR CHRISTIAN WALK. FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE
CREATION GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN [SLAP] TOGETHER UNTIL
NOW. NOW WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT? THE WHOLE CREATION GROANS.
THAT MEANS PAIN AND PANG AND MOAN AND GROAN AND CRYING
AND DYING AND SIGHING. LOOK AT. NATURE. BLOODY TOOTH, SHARP
FANG, CLAWS, DECAY, CORRUPTION, EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE IS DYING
AND CRYING AND SIGHING. THE FOUL BREATH OF DECAY, THE GNAWING
TOOTH OF CORRUPTION, IT'S ON EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, AND IT'S
ON YOU. IT'S IN CREATION. NOW, WHAT DARWIN CALLED THE SURVIVAL
OF THE FITTEST IS REALLY THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION. BUT
THERE'S A BETTER TIME COMING, THERE'S A BETTER TIME COMING.
ALL OF CREATION IS STANDING ON TIPTOES WAITING FOR THE
MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD. AND GOD, WHEN, WHEN ADAM
SINNED, GOD SAID THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO A, A SINFUL
CREATURE WOULD BE TO LIVE IN PARADISE. SO GOD TOOK ADAM OUT
OF PARADISE AND GOD PUT ADAM IN A WORLD THAT HAS THE CURSE OF
SIN UPON IT, THORNS AND THISTLES SHALL IT BRING FORTH UNTO THEE.
YOU'RE GOING TO EARN YOUR BREAD BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE.
WHY? BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO KNOW. THERE'S SOMETHING DEADLY WRONG
IN THIS WORLD, AND ALL OF THE PAIN AND ALL OF THE SORROW THAT
WE SEE IN CREATION, THAT'S THE FEVER OF THE INFECTION WHICH IS
SIN. AREN'T YOU GLAD THAT GOD GIVES YOU FEVER WHEN YOU
HAVE AN INFECTION? YOU SEE, IF
YOU. DIDN'T HAVE A FEVER, YOU
WOULDN'T KNOW YOU HAD AN. INFECTION, WOULD YOU? SO
THE FEVER'S THE SYMPTOM OF THE. DEEPER PROBLEM. AND SO THERE'S
THE GROANING OF CREATION. LOOK AROUND AT THE WORLD TODAY. GOD
DIDN'T MAKE THE WORLD THIS WAY, GOD MADE THE WORLD PERFECT. BUT
WE SEE A WORLD THAT IS MARRED AND SCARRED AND ALL OF CREATION
IS GROANING. LISTEN EVEN TO THE WIND AS IT GOES THROUGH THE
TREES; IT'S IN A MINOR KEY. EVERYTHING IS GROANING AND
SIGHING AND DYING. THERE'S THE GROANING OF CREATION. NOW WATCH
THIS VERY CAREFULLY, THERE'S ALSO THE GROANING OF THE
CHRISTIAN. NOTICE IN VERSE 23, LOOK AT IT, THIS IS TALKING
ABOUT YOU, AND NOT ONLY THEY, WHAT, THE CREATURES, BUT
OURSELVES ALSO WHICH HATH THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, EVEN
WE OURSELVES GROAN WITHIN OURSELVES, WAITING FOR THE
ADOPTION, TO WIT, THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY. FOLKS, YOUR BODY IS
NOT YET REDEEMED. YOUR SPIRIT IS REDEEMED, BUT YOUR BODY IS NOT
YET REDEEMED. YOU ARE WAITING FOR THE PROMISE OF EASTER, AND
SO THEREFORE YOU LIVE IN A BODY THAT HAS THE CURSE OF SIN IN IT
AND BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN A BODY THAT HAS THE CURSE OF SIN IN IT,
I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS BUT I, I NEED TO TELL YOU THIS, YOU ARE
NOT IMMUNE TO SUFFERING. AND IF YOU WALK DOWN THIS AISLE AND
THINK IF YOU GIVE YOUR HEART TO JESUS CHRIST THAT SUFFERING IS
ALL BEHIND YOU AND IT'S GONNA BE ALL HONEY AND NO BEES, I'M SORRY
TO TELL YOU, FRIEND, THAT'S WRONG. AND I DON'T WANT TO PUT
ANY FINE PRINT IN THE CONTRACT OR FAIL TO TELL YOU THAT THERE'S
THE GROANING OF, OF CREATION AND THERE'S ALSO THE GROANING OF THE
CHRISTIAN. NOW YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU WHY WE HAVE SO MUCH
SUFFERING IN THE WORLD TODAY? I'M TALKING ABOUT THOSE OF US
WHO ARE SAVED. WELL NUMBER ONE, WE LIVE IN A CREATION THAT HAS A
CURSE UPON IT. FRIEND, IT'S JUST HERE, THAT'S THE WAY NATURE IS,
AND THAT'S WHERE WE LIVE. AND ALSO, NOT ONLY DO WE LIVE IN A
WORLD THAT HAS THE CURSE OF SIN ON IT, WE LIVE WITH OTHER
SINNERS. THERE'RE OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD AND THERE'RE OTHER
PEOPLE WHO WOULD HARM US, THERE'RE OTHER PEOPLE WHO MAKE
CHOICES, AND WE SUFFER BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO WE LIVE IN A WORLD
THAT HAS THE CURSE OF SIN UPON IT, BUT WE LIVE IN A WORLD WITH
OTHER SINNERS. AND THEN I'M GOING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING
ELSE; WE LIVE IN BODIES THAT HAVE THE CURSE OF SIN UPON THEM.
[AUDIENCE: THAT'S RIGHT] YOUR BODY IS NOT YET REDEEMED. YOU
ARE A SON, A DAUGHTER OF ADAM, AND YOU WERE BORN OUT OF A
POLLUTED GENE POOL. I'M TELLING YOU, FOLKS, YOU HAVE A POLLUTED
GENE POOL, AND SO SOONER OR LATER YOU'RE GOING TO GET SICK.
SOONER OR LATER IT'S GOING TO GET YOU. SOONER OR LATER THE
DOCTOR'S GONNA THUMP ON YOUR CHEST AT $50 A THUMP AND SAY,
YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM. [AUDIENCE [LAUGHTER] NOW I'M TELLING YOU
THIS, SOONER OR LATER, JUST SOONER OR LATER, IT'S COMING!
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] I, IT, HEH, HEH, HEY, YOU SAY, IS THIS
EASTER OR WHAT? IT'S BAD NEWS, PASTOR. [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
WELL, I'M, LISTEN, IT'S THE BAD NEWS THAT MAKES THE GOOD NEWS
GOOD. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] NOW, I, I, I RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS
OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED TO THE
GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US. AND I'll TELL YOU SOMETHING
ELSE. NOT ONLY DO WE LIVE IN A. WORLD THAT'S CURSED, NOT ONLY DO
WE LIVE WITH OTHER SINNERS, NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE A CORRUPTED
BODY, BUT SOMETIMES WE STILL CHOOSE TO DO WRONG, DON'T WE,
AND GOD HAS TO CHASTISE US. UH, DAVID, I WAS READING WHERE DAVID
SAID, BEFORE I WAS AFFLICTED, I WENT ASTRAY. AND WHOM THE, THE
LORD LOVES, HE CHASTENS. AND THEN, FRIEND, THERE ARE JUST
MYSTERIOUS REASONS WHY PEOPLE SUFFER. I MEAN, IF ANYBODY COMES
TO YOU AND THEY SAY, WELL, I JUST HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, JUST
WALK ON, FRIEND, THEY DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. I'M TELLING YOU
THAT THERE ARE MYSTERIES IN THIS WORLD TODAY. BUT PUT IT DOWN
BIG, PLAIN, AND STRAIGHT, THERE'S THE GROANING OF
CREATION, THERE'S THE GROANING OF THE CHRISTIAN, NOW HERE'S THE
GOOD NEWS, THERE'S ALSO THE GROANING OF THE COMFORTER. LOOK
IF YOU WILL IN VERSE 26. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GROANINGS, NOW,
LOOK AT THIS. LIKEWISE, THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPETH OUR
INFIRMITIES, THAT'S OUR. WEAKNESSES, FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT
WE SHOULD PRAY FOR AS WE OUGHT, BUT THE SPIRIT ITSELF MAKETH
INTERCESSIONS FOR US WITH GROANINGS WHICH CANNOT BE
UTTERED. NOW, WHAT IS, WHAT DOES, WHAT DOES THE WORD
COMFORTER MEAN? JESUS SAID,
I'll. SEND YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND HE
SAID, HE, HE IS THE COMFORTER, THAT'S THE GREEK WORD PARACLETE,
THAT MEANS SOMEBODY WHO'S CALLED ALONGSIDE OF YOU LIKE A DOCTOR
ALONGSIDE A SICK BED, LIKE A FIREMAN ALONGSIDE A FIRE, LIKE A
LAWYER ALONGSIDE A, UH, PERSON WHO'S ACCUSED. THE HOLY SPIRIT
COMES ALONGSIDE OF US IN ALL OF OUR SORROW. PHILLIPS TRANSLATES
THIS VERSE THIS WAY, HIS SPIRIT WITHIN US IS ACTUALLY PRAYING
FOR US IN THOSE AGONIZING LONGINGS WHICH CAN NEVER FIND
WORDS. HAVE YOU EVER HURT SO BAD YOU COULDN'T EVEN PRAY? I HAVE.
ALL YOU CAN DO IS JUST GROAN. BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S THE HOLY
SPIRIT WHO SAYS, I WILL GROAN WITH YOU AND I WILL PRAY FOR YOU
AND I WILL INTERCEDE FOR YOU BEFORE THE FATHER. AND SO WE
HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT MAKING INTERCESSION FOR US BEFORE THE
THRONE, TO THE THRONE, AND WE HAVE THE LORD JESUS ON THE
THRONE MAKING INTERCESSION FOR US. AND SO, LISTEN, ARE YOU
FOLLOWING ME? THERE IS THE GUILT THAT WE EXHIBIT, THERE IS THE
GRACE THAT WE ENJOY, BUT STILL THERE ARE THE GROANS THAT
WE ENDURE; THE GROANING OF. CREATION, THE GROANING OF THE
CHRISTIAN, AND, THANK GOD, THE GROANING OF THE COMFORTER. NOW,
NOW WE COME, NOW WE COME TO WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY ABOUT EASTER,
WHERE EASTER TURNS EVERY HURT INTO A HALLELUJAH, EVERY TEAR
INTO A PEARL, EVERY MIDNIGHT INTO A SUNRISE, EVERY CALVARY TO
A RESURRECTION. GO BACK AGAIN, NOW, TO VERSE 18 AND LOOK AT IT.
NOW REMEMBER, PAUL IS DOING SOME FIGURING, AND PAUL SAYS, FOR I
RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY
TO BE COMPARED TO THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.
SO NOW, THE GRACE WE EXHIBIT, EXCUSE ME, THE, THE, THE GUILT
WE EXHIBIT, THE GRACE WE ENJOY, THE GROANS WE ENDURE, NOW HERE
IT COMES, THE GLORY WE EXPECT. [TAP, TAP, TAP, TAP] THAT'S
[TAP] VERSE [TAP] 18. [TAP] I RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF
THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY
WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US. NOW, FOLKS, THAT'S WHAT THE
EIGHTH CHAPTER OF ROMANS IS ALL ABOUT. THERE'S NOT A GREATER
CHAPTER IN ALL OF THE BIBLE THAN THE EIGHTH CHAPTER OF ROMANS.
NOW YOU SEE, FOLKS, WE'VE BEEN PREPARED FOR GLORY, WE'VE BEEN
PREPARED FOR GLORY BY THE DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION OF
JESUS CHRIST; THAT IS THE GOSPEL, THAT IS THE GOSPEL. NOT
JUST SIMPLY BY TRYING TO BE BETTER PEOPLE. SALVATION DOESN'T
COME BY LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST BUT BY
RECEIVING LIFE FROM THE DEATH OF CHRIST, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
AND SO, WE ARE PREPARED FOR GLORY, BUT WATCH THIS, LOOK IN
VERSE 28, NOT ONLY ARE WE PREPARED FOR GLORY, BUT WE ARE
PREDESTINED FOR GLORY, AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK
TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD WHO ARE THE CALLED
ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE, FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW HE ALSO DID
PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT
HE, GOD'S SON, MIGHT BE THE. FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN.
MOREOVER, WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE, THEM HE ALSO
CALLED, AND WHOM HE CALLED, THEM HE ALSO JUSTIFIED, HEH,
AND WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, THEM HE
ALSO. GLORIFIED. HE PUTS IT IN PAST
TENSE, IT'S AS GOOD AS DONE. DO YOU KNOW WHAT PREDESTINED MEANS?
IT MEANS SETTLED. I, I MEAN, IT MEANS SETTLED. YOU'RE LOOKING AT
A MAN THAT'S GLORIFIED. YOU SAY, WELL YOU DON'T LOOK GLORIFIED.
WELL YOU'RE JUST SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES. YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ME
THROUGH GOD'S EYES. IN THE HEART AND MIND OF GOD, IT IS SETTLED.
AND FRIEND, WHAT HAS BEEN DECREED IN HEAVEN CANNOT BE
ANNULLED BY HELL. [AUDIENCE: [THAT'S RIGHT] HMM, AND IT
CANNOT BE ANNULLED BY HUMANITY,
BECAUSE PREDESTINED MEANS IT'S DONE. I
HAVE BEEN PREPARED FOR GLORY; THE DEATH, BURIAL, AND THE
RESURRECTION OF JESUS DID THAT. I AM PREDESTINED FOR GLORY; THE
DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION
OF JESUS DID THAT. AND, FRIEND,
I, THEREFORE, MUST BE PRESERVED FOR GLORY. LOOK IF YOU WILL NOW
IN, IN THIS SAME, UH, CHAPTER, BEGINNING IN VERSE 31, WHAT
SHALL WE SAY TO THESE THINGS? FRIEND, IF GOD BE FOR US,
WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? HE THAT. SPARED NOT HIS OWN SON BUT
DELIVERED HIM UP FOR US ALL, HOW SHALL HE NOT ALSO, NOT WITH HIM
ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS? HUH, IF GOD LOVED US ENOUGH TO,
TO GIVE JESUS, HE'LL GIVE ANYTHING ELSE WE NEED. AND NOW
YOU ASK THIS QUESTION, WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF
GOD'S ELECT? IT IS GOD THAT JUSTIFIETH. WHO IS HE THAT
CONDEMNETH? IT IS CHRIST THAT DIED, YEA RATHER, THAT IS RISEN
AGAIN. NOTICE IT, IT IS IS IT, IS IN ITALICS. READ IT
THIS WAY. ITALICS MEAN THAT'S
BEEN. SUPPLIED BY THE TRANSLATOR TO
MAKE IT READ MORE SMOOTHLY. IN THIS CASE IT DOESN'T MAKE IT
READ MORE SMOOTHLY. HE'S ASKING A RHETORICAL QUESTION. WHO IS HE
THAT CONDEMNETH? CHRIST THAT DIED, YEA RATHER THAT IS RISEN
AGAIN, WHO IS EVEN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD WHO ALSO MAKETH
INTERCESSION FOR US? HA, HA, HE SAYS, DO YOU THINK MY LAWYER IS
GOING TO CONDEMN ME? NO! NO, LISTEN, HE IS SAYING THAT, THAT
THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN CONDEMN US. LISTEN, WHO, WHO SHALL
SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST SHALL TRIBU, HE MENTIONS
SEVEN ENEMIES, TRIBULATION OR DISTRESS OR PERSECUTION OR
FAMINE OR NAKEDNESS OR PERIL OR SWORD? HA, HA, VERSE 37, NAY, IN
ALL THESE THINGS WE'RE MORE THAN CONQUERORS. NOT JUST CONQUERORS,
WE DON'T KICK A FIELD GOAL THE LAST THREE SECONDS AND WIN, HA,
HA, HA, HA, HA. SUPER CONQUERORS! WHAT HE IS SAYING IS
NO FOE CAN CON, CONQUER US. AND, AND FRIEND, NO FAULT CAN CONDEMN
US. THESE SEVEN ENEMIES THAT PAUL MENTIONS HAVE BEEN THE
ENEMIES OF CHRISTIANS FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL. PAUL HAD
EXPERIENCED EVERY ONE OF THESE
SEVEN. ENEMIES: PERSECUTION, TRIAL,
PERIL, ALL OF THESE. HE SAID, THEY CAN'T, THEY CAN'T SEPARATE
YOU. WHY, ALL THEY CAN DO IS DRAW YOU CLOSER. LISTEN, FOLKS,
NO FOE CAN CONDEMN US BECAUSE OF EASTER. NO FEAR CAN CONQUER US
BECAUSE OF EASTER. NO FAULT CAN CONDEMN US BECAUSE OF EASTER.
LOOK IN VERSES 38 AND 39. PAUL SAYS, FOR I AM PERSUADED
THAT NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE NOR. ANGELS NOR PRINCIPALITIES NOR
POWERS NOR THINGS PRESENT NOR THINGS TO COME NOR HEIGHTH
NOR DEPTH, AND IN CASE HE LEFT. ANYTHING OUT, NOR ANY OTHER
CREATURE SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD
WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] THAT'S
THE MESSAGE OF EASTER, FRIEND. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WOULD DO
IN ROMAN TIMES? WHEN A PERSON WOULD BE ADJUDICATED
GUILTY OF A CRIME, THEY WOULD
PUT THAT. PERSON IN PRISON AND THEN THEY
WOULD NAIL ON THE PRISON DOOR [TAP, TAP, TAP, TAP] A LIST OF
THE CRIMES HE'D COMMITTED. AND THEY WOULD PUT UNDER THERE THE
NUMBER OF DAYS, MONTHS, YEARS THAT HE MUST STAY IN PRISON TO
PAY THE DEBT. IT WAS CALLED A CERTIFICATE OF DEBT AND IT WAS
NAILED TO THE PRISON DOOR. WHEN THAT MAN HAD PAID FOR HIS CRIME
AGAINST THE STATE, THEY WOULD TAKE THAT CERTIFICATE OF DEBT,
THE BAILIFF WOULD GO TO THE JUDGE AND SAY, HERE IS JOHN DOE
PRISONER. JOHN DOE PRISONER HAS PAID IN FULL HIS CRIME AGAINST
THE STATE. THE JUDGE WOULD TAKE THAT THING CALLED A
CERTIFICATE OF DEBT AND HE WOULD
WRITE. ACROSS IT PAID IN FULL.
ONE WORD IN THE GREEK LANGUAGE, TELELESTI, PAID IN FULL! HE
WOULD HAND IT TO THE CONDEMNED PRISONER AND THEN IF ANYBODY
EVER TRIED TO BRING HIM INTO DOUBLE JEOPARDY, HE COULD SHOW
THAT CERTIFICATE OF DEBT, WRITTEN, PAID IN FULL. JESUS
CHRIST TOOK MY SIN AND YOUR SIN TO THE CROSS. THE BIBLE TELLS US
IN COLOSSIANS THREE THAT JESUS TOOK THE HANDWRITING THAT WAS
AGAINST US AND [CLAP] NAILED IT TO [CLAP] HIS [CLAP] CROSS.
[CLAP] NAILED IT TO HIS CROSS! AND THEN HE BOWED HIS HEAD AND
HE DIED AND HE SAID, PAID IN FULL. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] IT IS
FINISHED. THAT'S EXACTLY THE SAME WORD, TETALESTI, [CLAP] I
[CLAP] HAVE [CLAP] PAID [CLAP] THAT [CLAP] SIN [CLAP] DEBT!
IT'S PAID, IT'S PAID IN FULL. HE TOOK YOUR CERTIFICATE OF DEBT
AND SAID, IT'S PAID, PAID IN FULL. NO FOE CAN CONDEMN US. NO
FEAR NEED CONTROL US. NO FAULT CAN SEPARATE US. AND, I RECKON
THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT EVEN WORTHY
TO BE COMPARED TO THE GLORY THAT SHALL BE REVEALED IN US. THERE'S
THE GUILT, THERE'S THE GRACE, THERE'S THE GRIEF, AND
THANK GOD FOR THE GLORY. THAT'S
WHAT. EASTER'S ALL ABOUT, HA, HA, HA,
HA. GOD DOESN'T DESTROY EVIL! IF HE DID, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A
CHOICE! GOD DEFEATS EVIL WITH A CROSS AND A RESURRECTION, ISN'T
THAT GOOD? [AUDIENCE: AMEN] I DON'T MEAN THE PREACHING, I
MEAN, THAT'S GOOD, THAT'S GOOD STUFF. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] FRIEND,
THAT'S WHAT EASTER'S ALL ABOUT AND THAT'S WHY YOU NEED TO BE
SAVED. HEADS ARE BOWED AND EYES ARE CLOSED. WOULD YOU BEGIN TO
PRAY FOR THOSE ROUND ABOUT YOU WHO MAY NOT KNOW THE LORD
JESUS? AND IF YOU'RE CERTAIN
THAT. YOU'RE SAVED, JUST PRAY, LORD,
BLESS THAT BROTHER, THAT SISTER, THAT FRIEND, THAT NEIGHBOR,
WHATEVER THEY NEED TODAY, IF THEY'RE NOT SAVED, LORD, THAT
THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO BE SAVED, I DON'T
KNOW OF A BETTER DAY THAN THIS DAY, HA, HA, THEN, WHAT A
WONDERFUL DAY TO BE SAVED. WHY DON'T YOU PRAY A PRAYER LIKE
THIS, DEAR GOD, I KNOW THAT YOU LOVE ME, AND FRIEND, HE DOES
LOVE YOU. AND I KNOW, LORD, THAT YOU WANT TO SAVE ME, AND FRIEND,
HE DOES. I AM A SINNER, I ACKNOWLEDGE MY SIN, AND FRIEND
YOU WON'T BE SAVED UNLESS YOU ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR SIN. FOR
THIS IS THE FAITHFUL SAYING AND. WORTHY OF ALL ACCEPT PATIENTLY
THAT JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS. I
ACKNOWLEDGE MY SIN, MY SIN
DESERVES. JUDGMENT, BUT I NEED MERCY. LORD
JESUS, I TURN FROM SIN TO YOU. AND RIGHT NOW BY FAITH I RECEIVE
YOU INTO MY HEART, RIGHT NOW, RIGHT NOW I RECEIVE YOU. I'M NOT
ASKING FOR A SPECIAL FEELING, I JUST PUT MY FAITH IN YOU, LORD
JESUS. I TRUST YOU RIGHT NOW. OH, LORD JESUS. I TURN FROM SIN
TO YOU, I RECEIVE YOU NOW INTO MY LIFE AS MY LORD AND
SAVIOR. THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME,
I. RECEIVE IT AS THE GIFT OF YOUR
LOVE. THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME. AND NOW, LORD JESUS, I WILL
FOLLOW YOU ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE AND HELP ME NEVER TO BE
ASHAMED OF YOU. IN YOUR HOLY NAME I PRAY, AMEN. FRIEND, AS WE CONCLUDE THIS
MESSAGE, MAY I ASK YOU A VERY PERSONAL QUESTION, A VERY
PERTINANT QUESTION, ARE YOU SAVED? I DIDN'T ASK IF YOU WERE
RELIGIOUS, BAPTIST, METHODIST, PRESBYTERIAN, EPISCOPALIAN OR
ANYTHING ELSE, DO YOU KNOW JESUS CHRIST? IS HE A BRIGHT, LIVING
REALITY IN YOUR LIFE? IF NOT, I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS. YOU CAN
RECEIVE HIM TODAY AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND HE WILL SAVE YOU
INSTANTANEOUSLY. HE'LL BE WITH YOU CONTINUALLY AND HE WILL KEEP
YOU ETERNALLY. PRAY LIKE THIS, LORD JESUS, COME INTO MY HEART,
FORGIVE MY SIN, SAVE ME, LORD JESUS. PRAY IT AND MEAN IT. AND
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